2 more poems

by horace p sternwall

around the fireplace up in the city, down on the farm a rollicking yarn will do you no harm around the fireplace, listen to the rain and a tale with the wallop of a freight train and what really makes a story go best is the introduction of a mystery guest whose sudden appearance always must alter the entire narrative thrust come on grandpa, do we really have to wait a whole week to hear the hero's fate? and grandpa sez, don't holler, don't shout just stayed tuned - and find out b

water in the stream who will save the last wanderer when he falls in the last stream who will wake the dreamer dreaming the last dream i fell in the gutter and the gutter kept flowing i, like the water do not know where i’m going